A charming Austin 7 scene from 1937

[Tony Griffiths]

I wonder how many got the reference to the Borrowers. I only know because my son was young at the time. It was curiously entertaining. I often used the reference for red heads, but, like my allusions to Stirling Moss, as the decades rolled by, lost most people.
In the photo of the sports model, with the old cameras there was often a lot of time spent setting the distance, speed, positiong for reasonable compositon, and the subjects acquired that resigned/bored look. And  if it was only a box Brownie they had to stay very still. But at lest the photos survived whereas most of todays do not and will not.

For the young ones amongst us, I've put a hyperlink